Clothes-pounder.



W. U. ELLIS.

CLOTHES POUN'DER.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 2. 1914.

Patented Feb. 9, 1915.

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WILLIAM C. ELLIS, OF VICTORIA, VIRGINIA.

GLOTHES-POUNDER.

Application filed March 2, 1914.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM C. ELLIS, citizen of the United States,residing at Victoria, in the county of Lunenburg and State of Virginia,have invented new and useful Improvements in Clothes-Pounders, of whichthe following is a specification.

My present invention pertains to clothes pounders.

The object of the invention is the provision of a clothes pounderembodying such construction that it is adapted to retain soap, and isalso adapted to maintain the circulation of water in contact with thesoap and otherwise accelerate the cleansing of the clothes on which itis used.

Other advantageous characteristics of the invention will be fullyunderstood from the following description and claim when the same areread in connection with the drawings, accompanying and forming part ofthis specification, in which:

Figure 1 is an inverted plan view of my novel clothes pounder. Fig. 2 isan elevation of the novel machine in which the pounder is employed. Fig.3 is a vertical, diametrical section of the pounder.

Similar numerals designate corresponding parts in all of the views ofthe drawings.

The tub 1, Fig. 2, may be and preferably is of conventional type, and onthe same at diametrically opposite points are two metallic uprights 2,the said uprights having bifurcated lower end portions 3 that straddlethe upper edge of the tub wall, and are detachably fixed thereon by setscrews 4:. Journaled and held against endwise movement in one of theuprights 2 is a shaft section 5, having a crank 6, and journaled in theother upright 2 is the reduced end 7 of a tubular shaft section 8,equipped with a set screw 9. A tubular shaft section 10 receives theinner portion of the shaft section 5 and is adjustably fixed thereto bya set screw 11. At its inner end the tubular section 10 is provided witha crank 12, and the said crank. in turn, merges into a shaft portion 13that is adjustably fixed by the set screw 9 in the tubular shaft section8.

It will be manifest from the foregoing that the uprights 2 may bepositioned at various distances apart to suit the actuating mechanismdescribed to tubs of different diameters; and it will also be manifestthat when the crank 6 is rotated. the pounder 14 will be rapidlyreciprocated by reason of the Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 9, 1915.

Serial No. 821,915.

stem or handle 15 of the pounder being pivotally connected to the crank12. It will further be understood that when the pounder 14: isreciprocated, steam and suds will be forced through the clothes and thethorough cleansing thereof will be quickly brought about.

As will be observed by comparison of Figs. 1 and 3, my novel poundercomprises an outer cone-shaped wall 20 which is preferably beaded at 21,and an inner cone-shaped wall 22, perforated at 23 and suitably fixed atits upper end to the wall 20, as through the medium of a sleeve 23 whichreceives the wooden handle 15. and is connected thereto by frictionalcontact or other suitable means. The pounder walls 20 and 22 arepreferably of sheet-metal, and on the outer side of the wall 20 at thelower end thereof are walls 23, preferably of sheet-metal, which formcompartments 2% that are open at their lower ends. These compartments 24are connected through apertures 25 in the wall 20 with the chamberformed by said wall 20, and are also connected through tubes 26 with theinner chamber formed by the wall 22. Thus it will be manifest that onthe downstroke of the pounder, the water, suds. etc., trapped in thecompartments 24 will be jetted through the apertures 25, and the tubes26, and will be driven under considerable head through the pounder andthe clothes that are being washed. 7

The chamber formed by the wall 22 in the center of the pounder isdesigned to receive soap. and its lower end is normally closed by aforaminous door 27. hinged at 28 to the wall 22, and designed to bedetachably secu ed in a closed pos tion by a fastener 29. .Vhen the saiddoor 27 is opened. soap may be placed in the central chamber of thepounder. and when said door is closed, the soap will be retained in saidchamber, and th s without interfering with the operation of the pounderand the forcing of water through the central chamber and in contact withthe soap.

It will be noticed that in addition to serving as conduits, the tubes 26operate as braces to hold the walls 20 and 22 in spaced relation. and tolend stiffness and strength to the pounder as a whole.

Having described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure byLetters-Patent, 1s:

The herein described clothes pounder,com-

prising an outer cone-shaped wall having apertures adjacent its lowerend; an inner cone-shaped wall fixed with respect to the outer Wall andspaced therefrom and forming a soap-receiving chamber and havingapertures connecting said chamber with the space between the outer walland the inner Wall; a foraminous door at the lower end of said chamberto retain soap therein; means for detachably securing said door in aclosed. position; walls secured on the .outer side of the lower portionof the outer cone-shaped wall and forming compartments that extend tothe lower end of said wall and are open at their lower ends and arearranged in communication with the second-named apertures; and tubesinterposed between and connecting the outer and inner cone-shaped Wallsand effecting communication between the said compartments and thesoap-receiving chamber.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of twosubscribing witnesses.

WILLIAM C. ELLIS. Witnesses J. H. HA MOCK, C. H. HALEY.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. G.

